"tim....." wrote:
"Recliner" wrote in message
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"tim....." wrote:
"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 15:43:31 on Sat, 27
Sep 2014, tim..... remarked:
According to an item in Octboer's MR

This work is costing 120 million and expects to generate extra ticket
sales of 28 million

If that's the ROI, why has this taken so long to get agreed?

You've forgotten to subtract the operating costs from the ticket sales.

One extra train diagram, per day (apparently). I suspect that will M-F
only - how much can that possibly cost (I have absolutely no idea)

I doubt that station operating costs are going to increase as the service
is terminating at an already staffed station (and I doubt that the new
intermediate stations will be manned - even before the demanning proposal)

All LU stations are and will remain manned at all times that a service
operates.

What, even Roding Valley with its 8 passengers per day (or whatever
stupidly low number it is)

I suspect that number leaves out season ticket holders, but, yes, every
station is manned whenever open. What the new stations presumably won't
have is manned ticket offices.

And the new line will certainly be seven days a week -- Saturday
is now almost as busy as weekdays on LU.

I wasn't questioning that

I was questioning the need for the extra diagram every day.

Weekend trains on urban services can easily be fuller on weekends(/late
evenings) because there are fewer of them.

I suspect that the weekend service will be able to be run with the same
number of diagrams as now (BICBW)

How? The new stations will still need to be manned, the train will still
need a driver, track faults will have to be fixed, etc.